tranquilliser

See also: tranquiliser and tranquillizer

English

Noun

tranquilliser (plural tranquillisers)

1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of tranquilizer.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.ze/

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• Rhymes: -e
• Homophones: tranquillisai, tranquillisé, tranquillisée, tranquillisées, tranquillisés, tranquillisez

Verb

tranquilliser

1. to calm, to reassure
   • 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche‎^{fr.Wikisource}, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter II:

     De cette manière, il se tranquillisa l’esprit, et continua son chemin....

     In this manner, he reassured himself, and continued on his way....

Conjugation

Conjugation of tranquilliser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	tranquilliser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	tranquillisant /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		tranquillisé /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	tranquillise /tʁɑ̃.ki.liz/	tranquillises /tʁɑ̃.ki.liz/	tranquillise /tʁɑ̃.ki.liz/	tranquillisons /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zɔ̃/	tranquillisez /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.ze/	tranquillisent /tʁɑ̃.ki.liz/
	imperfect	tranquillisais /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zɛ/	tranquillisais /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zɛ/	tranquillisait /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zɛ/	tranquillisions /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zjɔ̃/	tranquillisiez /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zje/	tranquillisaient /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zɛ/
	past historic2	tranquillisai /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.ze/	tranquillisas /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.za/	tranquillisa /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.za/	tranquillisâmes /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zam/	tranquillisâtes /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zat/	tranquillisèrent /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zɛʁ/
	future	tranquilliserai /tʁɑ̃.ki.liz.ʁe/	tranquilliseras /tʁɑ̃.ki.liz.ʁa/	tranquillisera /tʁɑ̃.ki.liz.ʁa/	tranquilliserons /tʁɑ̃.ki.liz.ʁɔ̃/	tranquilliserez /tʁɑ̃.ki.liz.ʁe/	tranquilliseront /tʁɑ̃.ki.liz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	tranquilliserais /tʁɑ̃.ki.liz.ʁɛ/	tranquilliserais /tʁɑ̃.ki.liz.ʁɛ/	tranquilliserait /tʁɑ̃.ki.liz.ʁɛ/	tranquilliserions /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	tranquilliseriez /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zə.ʁje/	tranquilliseraient /tʁɑ̃.ki.liz.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	tranquillise /tʁɑ̃.ki.liz/	tranquillises /tʁɑ̃.ki.liz/	tranquillise /tʁɑ̃.ki.liz/	tranquillisions /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zjɔ̃/	tranquillisiez /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zje/	tranquillisent /tʁɑ̃.ki.liz/
	imperfect2	tranquillisasse /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zas/	tranquillisasses /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zas/	tranquillisât /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.za/	tranquillisassions /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.za.sjɔ̃/	tranquillisassiez /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.za.sje/	tranquillisassent /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	tranquillise /tʁɑ̃.ki.liz/	—	tranquillisons /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zɔ̃/	tranquillisez /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.ze/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “tranquilliser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.